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Comments on "Near-field interference for the unidirectional excitation of electromagnetic guided modes"

Optics 2013-06-24 v1

Abstract

Rodriguez-Fortuno et al. (19 April 2013, p. 330) reported the unidirectional excitation of electromagnetic guided modes via the oblique illumination of a circularly polarized light. This comment points out that the same scheme was addressed in our a-year-ahead paper and that magnetic dipoles play a key role in the unidirectional excitation which was neglected in Rodriguez-Fortuno et al.'s report.

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@article{arxiv.1306.5068,
  title  = {Comments on "Near-field interference for the unidirectional excitation of electromagnetic guided modes"},
  author = {Seung-Yeol Lee and Il-Min Lee and Kyoung-Youm Kim and Byoungho Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.5068},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to the technical comments on Science, 19 April 2013, p. 330